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News‘1489’ leads 2023 IDFA winners
Documentary chronicles the Armenian director’s search for her missing soldier brother.
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NewsScreen digital edition: November 17
Read the digital edition of Screen’s first awards weekly for 2023/24. This issue rounds-up the contenders from the international feature race, previews the Marrakech film festival, and pays tribute to Hengameh Panahi.
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NewsJonathan Glazer, Yorgos Lanthimos awarded Tallinn’s renamed Dennis Davidson Spotlight Award
Prizes will be presented at Tallinn’s closing night, with neither director present.
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NewsGale Anne Hurd to lead speakers at Tallinn industry innovation forum (exclusive)
Further speakers include AI pioneers Caleb and Shelby Ward.
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NewsCanada’s Inside Out queer festival announces projects for seventh finance forum (exclusive)
2023 edition of international finance forum adds episodic content to line-up.
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NewsUK’s Skills Task Force calls for ScreenSkills transformation, apprenticeship reform and revised funding model
The task force, chaired by former Amazon exec Georgia Brown, has found that more than £100m was committed in 2022 to skills by Task Force member organisations alone.
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NewsApple awards contender ‘Napoleon’ gets December China release date
Sony Pictures handles worldwide distribution.
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NewsUTA signs ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ German-Turkish director Ilker Çatak
Germany’s Oscar submission to open in US on December 24 via SPC.
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NewsUK film and TV organisations urge an end to complacency around responses to sexual harassment allegations
Senior figures from Bectu, the Film and TV Charity and CIISA spoke to academic Anna Bull who has conducted the study into harassment.
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NewsSaudi fantasy romance feature ‘HWJN’ to open Red Sea film festival
Story of a kind-hearted jinn is a co-production from Image Nation Abu Dhabi, MBC Studios and Vox Studios.
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NewsPremiere Entertainment Group eyes Latin American expansion, brings on ‘Sin Hijos’ producer Sandro Halphen (exclusive)
The Ballad Of Hortensia to being production in El Salvador later this month.
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NewsNFTS partners with Sean Connery Foundation, BBC Film on emerging Scottish filmmaker programme
Course fees will be subsidsed by 70% to make the programme as accessible as possible.
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NewsFrance’s Cesar Academy unveils Revelations line-up of local rising stars
16 nominees in each category will compete in the first round of voting.
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NewsJimmy Kimmel returning to host 2024 Oscars
“I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times,” quips talk show host.
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NewsWBD head David Zaslav says writers guild was right, does not regret “overpaying” on new contract
“I’ve never regretted overpaying for great talent or a great asset,” mogul tells NYT.
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NewsFocus Features sets spring 2024 release for ‘The American Society Of Magical Negroes’
Kobi Libii makes feature directorial debut.
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NewsPalestinian doc ‘Son Of Streets’ wins best pitch at IDFA Forum
Mohammed Almughanni’s film about a boy coming of age in a Beirut refugee camp won the €1,500 cash prize.
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NewsFormer top NATO execs launch The Fithian Group
Founding partners John Fithian, Patrick Corcoran, Jackie Brenneman to advise companies worldwide.
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NewsCinema set to open in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool
Cinema will show the latest movies for free to children and young people being treated at Alder Hey
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NewsIndie tax relief, streamer levies and IP support all urgently needed, say submissions to UK film committee
The film and TV committee has published its first proposals.